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Living by the Dead
By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit
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Graveyards of Chicago:
The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries
By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski. Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Green-Wood Cemetery Arcadia Publishing announces the release of Alexandra Mosca's historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery and to browse other available titles!

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers
For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints, Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture
with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman is now
available. Please visit
Studio Indiana
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West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.

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Arrete! C'est ici L'Empire de la Mort -- "Stop! This is the Empire of Death."
Death And The Downturn
Funeral Industry
Saturday, 13 December 2008
Death And The Downturn: How The Recession Is Affecting Funerals

Real estate has always been pricey in New York, but living six feet under just got more expensive. Across Brooklyn, funeral homes are losing money because many families cannot afford what they might have once paid to bury their relatives. While the economic downturn does not affect the death rate, many families are choosing to cremate instead of bury, saving between $2,000 and $4,000. And that's not their only concession.

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Guilty verdict in upstate NY body-parts trial
Biomedical Tissue Services
Saturday, 13 December 2008
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Lawsuit says urn had wrong ashes
Cremation Errors
Saturday, 13 December 2008
By DAVID HOLDEN

For two years, man thought ashes were wife's. A former Huntsville resident is suing Laughlin Service Funeral Home alleging he was given the remains of a stranger after his deceased wife was cremated in 2006. The lawsuit was filed electronically in Madison County Circuit Court on Saturday on behalf of Richard Henry Parrott. Parrott seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

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Dying for Animal Rights
Caskets and Coffins
Saturday, 13 December 2008
The Non Fur-Lined PETA Coffin, Dying for Animal Rights
By Tina Sims

One slogan on a PETA coffin in particular, plays on a long-running ad, "Told You I Wouldn't Be Caught Dead in Fur!"  Are you dying to support the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the little critters they protect?  There is one way to show your undying love (sort of) a PETA coffin.  While many people get buried in their coffins with their favorite sports team, how many will go for the PETA themed long rest?
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Buried in the Churchyard: A Good Story, at Least
Historic Cemetery
Saturday, 13 December 2008

New York -- Knowing that Grant’s Tomb is really a mausoleum solves the age-old head-scratcher about who’s buried there. (Ulysses S. and his wife, Julia, lie above ground, so no one is.) If only cracking the case of Charlotte Temple’s grave marker were as easy. Tucked inside the graveyard of Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan, it is a weathered brownstone slab about the size of a refrigerator. Carved across it in inch-tall letters is the name Charlotte Temple. At first glance, it seems like any tribute to the deceased.

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Operatic bass Richard Van Allan dies at 73
Celebrity Deaths
Thursday, 11 December 2008

LONDON (AP) — Richard Van Allan, a British bass-baritone who was a commanding presence on the world's opera stages, has died at age 73. Van Allan died Dec. 4 in London, according to the National Opera Studio, which he directed from 1986 to 2001. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer two years ago, The Guardian newspaper reported. His roles included Pooh-Bah in Jonathan Miller's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" at English National Opera.

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Roslyn's Wesley Craven has grave concerns
Cemetery
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
By MARY SWIFT

ROSYLN, Wash. -- If you want an old-fashioned burial, Wesley Craven promises to be the last one to let you down. In fact, that's exactly what his business card - one that shows the broad-shouldered 71-year-old Craven wielding a pick ax - says. Craven is a gravedigger at the Cle Elum and Roslyn cemeteries, where those who want traditional burial go to their final resting place in graves that are still hand-dug.

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The Right to Bury One's Dead
Burial
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
The Right to Bury One's Dead: The Letter and Spirit of the Law

For centuries, the right to bury one's dead without interference has been jealously guarded by humankind. Indeed, in Homer's Iliad, one of the most moving passages in ancient literature can be found, involving the legendary grief and despair of King Priam. The King was despondent over being deprived of the corpse of his young warrior son Hector, freshly killed by the vengeful Achilles. Eventually, King Priam received his son's body for a proper ceremonial burial. The parents described below were not so fortunate.

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School children get a glimpse of historic stone coffin
Caskets and Coffins
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
UK -- School children from Weavers Close Primary School in Earl Shilton have been treated to an exclusive look at the infamous stone coffin which was recently excavated at David Wilson East Midlands' Lanterns development on Candle Lane. The stone coffin, which some believe could be that of King Richard III, has attracted much media attention and even featured on BBC 1's The One Show. Since its excavation in November, the coffin has been looked after at David Wilson's development so that local schools could come and take a special look at this fascinating historic artefact.
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People are resting in (green) peace
Eco-Friendly Burial
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Idea of eco-friendly burials takes root and grows in Michigan
ByTanveer Ali and Nathan Hurst

WYANDOTTE -- Pushing daisies is getting greener. As more Americans look for ways to reduce their impact on the environment during their lives, many also are looking at ways to do the same in death. They're turning to options that allow them to pass on without the toxic trail left by cremation or the earth-altering effects of a tradition burial. And while they're saving the environment, they're also saving money.

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Cemeteries can help unearth family history
Cemetery
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
A stroll through a graveyard can reveal previously unknown information about ancestors
By Jeff Long
When the weather isn't too raw, genealogist Craig Pfannkuche often can be found exploring cemeteries, a preferred place for digging up arcane facts about the dead. Children who died, former wives not mentioned in family stories, dates and causes of death omitted from newspaper clippings—sometimes such key details are revealed during a stroll through a graveyard, he said.
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Alexy II's funeral over, tombstone placed over his tomb
Famous Graves
Tuesday, 09 December 2008

MOSCOW -- Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexy II, who died of cardiac insufficiency last Friday at the age of 79, has been buried in Moscow’s Epiphany Cathedral. Earlier in the day, a major requiem service was held in the Cathedral of the Savior, located in downtown Moscow in a stone’s throw from the Kremlin. Requiem liturgies and prayers were chanted there for 60 hours since Saturday afternoon when the coffin with the Patriarch’s body was delivered there from his residence in a southwest suburb of Moscow.

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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

Taphophilia Facts

According to USA Today, Americans are increasingly considering home funerals as a cheaper and more relaxed alternative to commercial mortuary services. Traditional U.S. funerals average $5,000 to $6,000, per the Funeral Consumers Alliance.
 

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?
 

Quote Repository

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch over man's mortality.

William Wordsworth

Grave Epigrams

Sweet spirit thou hast soared from earth,
And seraphs hail thy heavenly birth;
Thou will one guardian angel be,
Until we rise to dwell with thee.

 

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